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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Robert A. Lovett
Special Assistant to Secretary of War, 1940-41; Assistant Secretary of War for Air, 1941-45; Under Secretary of State, 1947-49; private law practice with Brown Brothers, Harriman and Company, 1949-50; Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1950-51; and Secretary of Defense, 1951-53.
ROBERT A. LOVETT
Awarded by
President John F. Kennedy
December 6, 1963
Servant of the Republic, he has set high standards for the private citizen in public service by his selfless dedication to the national security under four Presidents.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett and Mutual Security Administration Director W. Averill Harriman -11/51
Robert A. Lovett, was asked by incoming President John F. Kennedy to be Secretary of Defense or Treasury, he declined. But Lovett did suggested his friends, C. Douglas Dillon, investment executive and diplomat; Dean Rusk, Rockefeller Foundation president; and Robert McNamara of Ford. These three became Treasury Secretary, Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense--the administration's most "important policy making positions"--and some of the "architects of the Vietnam War."
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